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Electron–ion collision-induced harmonics generation in a plasma with an isotropic bi-Maxwellian distribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2002

G. FERRANTE ,
S.A. URYUPIN  and
M. ZARCONE
G. FERRANTE
Affiliation:
Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia and Dipartimento di Fisica e Tecnologie Relative, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy
S.A. URYUPIN
Affiliation:
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky pr. 53, 117924, Moscow, Russia
M. ZARCONE
Affiliation:
Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia and Dipartimento di Fisica e Tecnologie Relative, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy
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Abstract

A treatment is given of harmonics generation resulting from nonlinear inverse bremsstrahlung in a plasma with an anisotropic bi-Maxwellian electron velocity distribution function. A complete characterization of the process is reported. In particular, analytically and numerically we established how the efficiency of the odd harmonics generation and their polarization depend on such process parameters as: (1) the degree of effective temperature anisotropy, (2) the frequency and the intensity of the fundamental wave, and (3) the angle between the fundamental wave field direction and the symmetry axis of the electron distribution function.

Keywords

BremsstrahlungElectron-ion collisionsHarmonicsLaser Field
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 177 - 184
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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